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Mamo discusses the life and career of Roger Ebert.

The Mamo Summer Box Office Contest is here! We roll out the wildest, weirdest summer we've ever encountered and break down week by week what we think will make what, and how. Now it's your turn: listen to the episode, and enter your picks for the top ten grossing films to be released between May 1 and August 31. May the craziest bastard win. Entries must be made in the comment section for this episode on RowThree.com to be eligible.

Has movie marketing finally flipped its lid? With spoileriffic trailers for Iron Man 3 and The Wolverine dropping this week, we look at whether the process of hyping a movie retains any interest in preserving audience surprise - or if we're just missing the point anyway.

http://rowthree.com/audio/mamo/mamo296.mp3 One month later to the day, Matt Brown returns from Middle Earth and Matt Price regales him with everything that's happened in Hollywoodland since he's been away. New Zealand travel tips abound! Plus, yet another random stranger asks our opinion about Episode VII! It's like nothing's changed at all.

We cable-knit the nine Oscar night mini-Mamo episodes into a sweater of showness. Jennifer Lawrence! Daniel Day-Lewis! Anne Hathaway's nipples! They're all here, except for the nipples.

Bonus Mamo! We sail into your eardrums three days shy of the 85th annual Academy Awards to give you the lowdown on who's gonna win what, and prep you up for Sunday's Mamo Oscar night.

Don't want to download our two-part Soderbergh discussion in Mamo #291 and #292? We've stitched them both together, with exactly 35 seconds of additional content, for the all-in-one extravaganza. See Soderbergh the way he was meant to be seen! Mamo Roadshow!

Soderbergh continues - in part two of today's multi-part examination of the director's concluding career, we pick up at Out of Sight and watch the director become a filmmaking powerhouse unlike any in Hollywood, before ultimately deciding to abdicate his narrative throne... but not before leaving us with one last slice of pie: Side Effects.

To discuss a career too enormous for just one podcast episode, we take a page from Che's book - or the book of Che, as written by Steven Soderbergh. In part one of today's multi-part examination of Soderbergh's concluding career, we look at the spiral into hell that greeted the indie director of Sex, Lies, and Videotape. It was all downhill from there, all right... until a tiny little 1996 masterpiece called Schizopolis.

All right, you wanna talk about J.J. Abrams and Star Wars? Here we go. Mamo looks at the career of the best middle manager in the business and speculates about what this all means for a galaxy far, far away.

Ouch! The Governator returns to the big screen and literally nobody cares. The Last Stand would be finely titled, were it not for the fact that it's the first in half a dozen return projects that Arnie has in development... is it time for the Running Man to stop running? The Predator to stop preying? The Terminator to... die?

What is the state of the modern movie musical? With Les Mis as a base, we invite special guest stars Sasha James and Lindsay Ragone onto the program to assess the health of the genre. Unfortunately, no one sang their contribution.

The Oscar nominations are out and we nom nom nom our way through lunch while talking about what is and is not headed to the podium on February 24th. Remember: awards don't mean anything. It's Mamo.

The end of the world came and went, and the makers of films wisely decided to schedule stuff beyond the Mayan apocalypse just in case those crazy pre-civilization watchmakers were wrong. Mamo casts its eyes forward to the big releases of 2013 and does some guessing about where franchise filmmaking will go in the year to come.

Happy new year! Mamo casts its eyes back on the year 2012, the year in which the Avengers assembled, the Dark Knight rose, and the words “Mayan apocalypse” turned out to be referring to Taylor Kitsch’s career. The Matts give a broad survey of what worked, what didn’t work, and what were (in our wide and varied opinions) the best films of the year.